Is there a private entity that would be willing to sell such insurance
and have a high probability of surviving the disruption well enough to
pay off?
Can the conditions under which this insurance would be paid off be
specified well enough to distinguish from conditions where the insuree
is simply too lazy to try hard enough to get a job?
(It isn't clear why people who want the government to provide the insurance
are confident that using the government allows them to ignore these questions.)
I think half of the argument is over providing insurance to those who
appear to lack the foresight to realize that the risks are unusually high.
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